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Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by chpatrick »

mandmandam wrote: post #124
pavlov wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crypto on the whole is a scene where Sam Bankman-Fried was considered very smart while he was busy conducting the most inept financial crimes in modern history. The bar is low indeed.

We - humans - could have had digital money - fast and fee-less, micro-transactions, decentralization, secure, anti-spam. Everything Bitcoin claimed to want to be. Instead we - the tech community - got smug about scams. People here get smug even toward the victims of scams. The attitude has been 'Who gives a flying fuck about the details of any crypto tech, or the potential of digital money'. 'It's all a scam, so I do…

We have that in Europe, it's called SEPA.

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Post by NotYourLawyer »

JohnFen wrote: post #81
whycome wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You would think the pain would be immediate though.

A couple of years ago, I had a mishap with a moderately powerful laser, meant for engraving, grazing quickly across my left eye (I was wearing appropriate eye protection). It wasn't until the next day that it started feeling like someone poured sand in it. It took a few days to return to normal.

If you were wearing appropriate eye protection, this would not have been possible.

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Post by matteoraso »

LelouBil wrote: post #199
astrange wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A signed git commit is actually immutable. An NFT is generally the signed text of a URL, which kind of isn't.

Wait what, I thought it was at least the hash of the image or something.

No, NFTs technically have nothing to do with images, or files at all. The way it works is that you write a random string and save it on a blockchain, which becomes the NFT. From there, you can use a lookup table to map the NFT to a URL that links to an image that's stored on the owner's server. NFTs are truly the worst of all grifts.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by lern_too_spel »

mandmandam wrote: post #124
pavlov wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crypto on the whole is a scene where Sam Bankman-Fried was considered very smart while he was busy conducting the most inept financial crimes in modern history. The bar is low indeed.

We - humans - could have had digital money - fast and fee-less, micro-transactions, decentralization, secure, anti-spam. Everything Bitcoin claimed to want to be. Instead we - the tech community - got smug about scams. People here get smug even toward the victims of scams. The attitude has been 'Who gives a flying fuck about the details of any crypto tech, or the potential of digital money'. 'It's all a scam, so I do…

When will the cryptocurrency promoters understand that society doesn't want decentralization? People don't want scammers going around taking people's money without recourse, causing a burden on everyone else. They have explicitly entrusted governments to claw back ill-gotten gains. It is just a matter of time until regulations on on-ramps and off-ramps hits cryptocurrencies to the point where they have all the same regulatory costs as centralized ledgers with the additional computational cost of decentralized ledgers.

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Post by sandworm101 »

Green lasers. Not the first time ive seen this sort of thing. Green lasers are made by running an IR laser through a crystal that doubles thier frequency, shifting IR into what we see as green light. But go cheap on the crystal and a green laser pumps out invisible IR possibly in a slightly different direction than the visible beam. Your eyes dont even blink because they dont see the IR. You dont notice the damage and simply think it a headache.

See an eye doctor asap and tell them you were exposed to a high power green lasers. They cannot fix things, but better you learn about any new blind spots before you drive a truck.

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Post by diego_sandoval »

roym6 wrote: post #66
whycome wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You would think the pain would be immediate though.

Only if the source is extremely strong. E.g. the sun

As a kid (~6 years old), I once tried to look at the sun for as long as possible, competing against myself. Luckily, I didn't do any noticeable damage, but I feel like someone should have told me about UV radiation and the damage it can cause to the retina.

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Post by dist-epoch »

frankfrank13 wrote: post #32
snakeyjake wrote: post #19

Given the.. qualities.. of people involved in the NFT space the organizers probably bought a bunch of UV-C lamps off alibaba because they were cheap and looked cool-- doing absolutely no research and with no regard for others.

I think that is 100% true. I had a friend keep his grow lights on a little too long, a little too often, because they looked cool. I got instant migraines when I walked in his room.

Grow lights use UV-A, UV-B.

UV-C is used to sterilize stuff since it damages DNA/RNA. It's toxic to plants too.

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Post by jrflowers »

jeffhuys wrote: post #39

I really am surprised by all the “lol you buy NFT so already blind” folks. Actually pretty disgusting. Disclaimer: I don’t own NFTs.

People making those jokes can’t see how disgusting that behavior is. It is like they were blinded by the bright lights of cynicism. When I look into these people’s souls it is like staring into a vast black abyss.
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